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B-17s aren’t Corollas. It can’t operate like an airliner.

• throwup238 2y ago
  They're not F22s either, they didn't need to go in for major maintenance every sortie. They had inspections after every flight and daily/25/50/100 hour inspections [1] but most of the time they went hundreds of hours before needing major work that would take a plane out of rotation for extended periods of time. [1] https://www.historicflyingclothing.com/en-GB/ww2-usaaf-manuals/usaaf-aircraft-inspection-maintenance-guide-b-17-1944/prod_17660 https://www.historicflyingclothing.com/en-GB/ww2-usaaf-manua...
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  • mulmen 2y ago
    How long did those regular services take? 20 hour missions means they’re going in for service every mission. The 50 hour is every other mission. Between the B-17 and B-24 we built about 30,000 strategic bombers in WWII. They don’t all have to be in the air regularly to maintain constant 1000+ bomber formations. If you can find any account of how crews sharing aircraft regularly I’d love to see it because I have never heard anything like that.